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Features 2013/06/29

Sex in African Novels Pt. 2: “I Found Her Stretched Out Naked On The Bed.”

On a night such as this momentous deeds occur. This was the night of reckoning. I walked from the station to the house carrying my overcoat over my arm, for my body was burning hot and the sweat poured from my forehead. Though ice crackled under my shoes, yet I sought the cold. Where was […]

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Stories and Poems 2013/06/19

Sex in African Novels Pt. 1: “Please, Ona, Don’t Wake the Whole Household.”

The excerpt you about to read is from Buchi Emecheta’s 1980 novel Joys of Motherhood. It’s the debut post in a new Brittle Paper series called “Sex in African Novels.” Enjoy! Agbadi had slept so much in the day that, now he was feeling better, he was finding it difficult to sleep the night through. He must […]

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Features 2018/09/25

Photos from the 2018 Open Book Festival in Cape Town

Open Book Festival 2018. Photo credit: Bulumko Gana.

The 2018 Open Book Festival took place from 5-9 September, in Cape Town: event centres included The Fugard Theatre, The District 6 […]

Features 2018/09/25

Chimamanda’s Workshop Returns as the Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop, Sponsored by Trace Nigeria | How to Apply

chimamanda adichie - Carrie Mae Weems. Styled by Malina Joseph Gilchrist

In 2017, in what should have been its tenth edition, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie announced that her annual workshop would not […]

Features 2018/09/25

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Terrible | Model-Turned-Poet’s Memoir Is Part Prose, Part Verse

Yrsa Daley-Ward. Photo credit: Laurel Grolio, for Girls At Library.

Behind the rise of Instagram poet-model-actress-queer activist Yrsa Daley-Ward is an inspiring story. Born to a Nigerian father and a […]

Features 2018/09/25

Bakwa Magazine Releases Issue 08: PAIN

bakwa 08 - pain

Bakwa magazine has released its eighth issue, themed PAIN. Founded in 2011 by Dzekashu MacViban, Bakwa magazine is Cameroon’s leading Anglophone publication of […]

Features 2018/09/22

Teju Cole Joins Harvard’s Department of English as Gore Vidal Professor of Creative Writing

teju cole sydney morning herald

Teju Cole has joined Harvard University’s Department of English as the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing. […]

Features 2018/09/22

Always Another Country | Sisonke Msimang’s North America Book Tour

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Last October, Sisonke Msimang’s debut memoir Always Another Country was published by Jonathan Ball Publishers in South Africa. The account of […]